Re: Prefer luatex for documentation

[Luca Fascione]

Sorry, luatex is like 10yrs old, what's the need for xetex again? Maybe I
could justify pdftex (I really don't quite see it, but maybe) but xetex
seems just arbitrary... Or do you mean for a transition period?

What's the oldest system that this Lilypond would be used on? What's the
youngest texlive that will run on that system? That's your tex distro of
reference.

L

On Mon, 21 Nov 2022, 13:43 Jean Abou Samra, <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

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> > Le 21 nov. 2022 à 13:36, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> a écrit :
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> > To clarify what Jean wants if he mentions 'maintenance burden': We are
> > talking about a potential change checking for all three TeX variants
> > in the `configure` script, or rather, what TeX versions should be
> > tested against.
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> > The patch for such a decision is trivial.  It doesn't mean that it
> > would no longer be possible to build the documentation for a given TeX
> > flavour, it is just that `xetex` (or `pdftex`) would be no longer in
> > the toolchain for CI and building the final version of the
> > documentation.
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> Well, things that don’t get tested have a tendency to get broken over
> time, but indeed it wouldn’t mean preventing from compiling with XeTeX in
> the immediate future.
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> It would mean that once XeTeX does break, we don’t get “hello, I am a new
> contributor / a distro packager, and your doc build is failing for me with
> this obscure error: …”.
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> Jean
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